Golda Meir Quotes
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
I don't want to have a bad influence on anybody, but there's no point in my giving up cigarettes now. I won't die young.
Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
From Russia I didn't bring out a single happy memory, only sad, tragic ones. The nightmare of pogroms, the brutality of Cossacks charging young Socialists, fear, shrieks of terror.
If only political leaders would allow themselves to feel, as well as to think, the world might be a happier place.
Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?
I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
I have always felt sorry for people afraid of feeling, of sentimentality, who are unable to weep with their whole heart. Because those who do not know how to weep do not know how to laugh either.
It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil!
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. ... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.
I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
I want to be able to live without a crowded calendar. I want to be able to read a book without feeling guilty or go to a concert when I like.
We have always said that in our war with the Arabs we had a secret weapon - no alternative.
